Teen star Nicholas Hoult shuns the fashionista Jasmine Guinness

Jasmine Guinness's attempts to extol the merits of London Fashion Week to Nicholas Hoult, who starred in the trendy teen drama Skins, appear to have fallen on deaf ears.

Jasmine Guinness's attempts to extol the merits of London Fashion Week to Nicholas Hoult, who starred in the trendy teen drama Skins, appear to have fallen on deaf ears. Photo: PA

Tim Walker

9:56PM GMT 23 Feb 2009

Mandrake saw the 32-year-old Irish model in deep and earnest conversation with the 19-year-old actor at the Mac Salutes party at the Hospital Club in London.

For all Miss Guinness's time and undoubted charms, the teenager still took a view of the fashion scene that was not altogether on message. "Don't get me wrong, they are friendly, the fashion people, they let me in," he told me. "I can't help finding the whole thing strange."

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